Hazel Blears says Britons enjoy getting drunk too much The row over 24-hour licensing has re-opened after a Cabinet minister admitted that Britons enjoy getting drunk too much to adopt a continental-style drinking culture. The Conservatives accused ministers of disregarding public safety after Hazel Blears acknowledged that people were more interested in “pushing the limits […]

Don Foster has hit out at broadcasters over Christmas repeats Broadcasters were condemned as “cheap and lazy” today after it emerged that more than a third of programmes over the Christmas period will be repeats. The level of festive repeats is set to rise by some 42% from last year, according to the Liberal Democrats, […]

ALMOST £60MILLION OFtaxpayers’ money is being used to rescue a French-owned rail company. The Strategic Rail Authority agreed yesterday to bail out Connex South Eastern, which runs services between London, Kent and Sussex. Only last month the company, owned by French media giant Vivendi, revealed its chief executive had a 63 per cent pay rise […]